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MIT Media Lab Webinar
December 15th, 2021 Lecturers || Prof. Joseph Paradiso, Prof. Valentina Sumini, Arch. Guillermo Trotti || Living in space. Inspirational talks by Dava Newman, an American aerospace engineer, the director of the MIT Media Lab, and a former deputy administrator of NASA || Newman is the Apollo Program Professor of Aeronautics, Astronautics, and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Newman's research expertise is in aerospace biomedical engineering, investigating human performance in varying gravity environments. She also developed the MICR0-G space flight experiment to provide a sensor suite and study human adaptation in extreme environments. Dava Newman has promoted the development of space activity suits, namely the Bio-Suit, which provides pressure through compression directly on the skin via the suit's textile weave, patterning, and advanced materialsrather than with pressurized gas. The suit is designed to help astronauts move around more easily than gas-filled suits allow. These spacesuit technologies are now being applied to "soft suits" to study and enhance locomotion on Earth.
Design Exploration: Towards a Moon Architecture — MIT Media Lab
